Entangled Memories
Complicating the Memory of Area Bombing Through the Haunted Ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2409122 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eloise Florence (0000-0002-6052-9016) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 251-263 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708621997584 |
| OpenAlex | W3137382170 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 52 |
This article investigates the possibilities for experiential encounters with ruins in Berlin to complicate the dominant articulations of the cultural memory of Allied bombing attacks on German cities during the Second World War. Building on works that seek to disrupt normative models of cultural memory of the bombings, and entangling them with existing literature that uses new materialism to engage the sensorial nature of memory site-encounters, I examine my own fieldwork visits the ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof-a former train station-as an entanglement of both. Specifically, I investigate how encountering Anhalter through this entangled method allows the site to emerge as haunted. Encountering Anhalter as haunted might complicate the linear temporality that underpins enduring the narrative that the Allies' actions during the war were completely ethical because they are largely framed as a response to- ergo following-the Holocaust
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · German · Literature · Materialism · Narrative · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Temporality · The Holocaust · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Photography and Visual Culture · History · Law · Philosophy
Manifestly Haraway
New Materialism
Industrial Ruins
Is ‘Difficult Heritage’ Still ‘Difficult’?
Ghostly Matters
In the Wake of War
The Ghosts of Berlin
Traveling between Delos and Berlin
Terror From the Sky
Dresden, a Camera Accuses’
Bodily collisions
Embodiment and living memorials
Memory studies in a moment of danger
The place of trauma
Memory up close
Diffracting Diffraction
Negative heritage
Operation ‘thunderclap’
Landscapes of Fear
Facilis descensus averni est ”
Britain, the Two World Wars, and the Problem of Narrative
Place Annihilation
You'll go home with bruises”
Exposed
National Identity and Mentalities of War in Three EC Countries
Transformative landscapes
Toxic landfills, survivor trees, and dust cloud memories
A Question of Silence
On the History of Man-made Destruction
Forgetting Hiroshima, remembering Auschwitz
The Making of Post-Post-Soviet Ruins
Post-totalitarian national identity
Memories of Universal Victimhood
Situated Knowledges
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |